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<center><b><font size="6">VisIt 1.2.7 Release Notes</font></b></center>

<p>Welcome to VisIt's release notes page. This page describes the important
enhancements and bug-fixes that were added to this release.</p>
<p><b><font size="4">Features added in version 1.2.7</font></b></p>
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  <li>The iso volume operator has been added to VisIt.</li>
  <li>The performance of the material interface reconstruction, contour and slice operators has been improved by about 5 - 10 percent.</li>
  <li>The reading of unstructured meshes from Silo files has been improved by about 10 percent.</li>
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<p><b><font size="4">Bugs fixed in version 1.2.7</font></b></p>
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  <li>The values for eff_stress from Mili files are incorrect.</li>
  <li>VisIt should not issue a warning message when the number of entries in a zonal variable equals the number of entries in the mesh excluding ghost zones.</li>
  <li>VisIt uses invalid variable extents when material selecting a variable where the number of entries in a zonal variable equals the number of entries in the mesh excluding ghost zones.</li>
  <li>VisIt does not handle quad cells that are stored in the file as hexes.</li>
  <li>VisIt is slow opening a Mili file.</li>
  <li>VisIt should report the domain number when reporting an error in a data file.</li>
  <li>2D vectors should be drawn on top of the mesh to improve the visibility of the vectors.</li>
  <li>VisIt crashes when PickByNode and PickByNode queries are given out of range index values.</li>
  <li>The contour levels are incorrect when using log scaling on expression variables.</li>
  <li>VisIt sets the window limits incorrectly for curve plots when run in parallel.</li>
  <li>Creating a boundary plot of an index selected variable doesn't work.</li>
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<p>Click the following link to view the release notes for the previous version
of VisIt: <a href="relnotes1.2.6.html">VisIt 1.2.6 Release Notes</a>.</p>
<p>Click the following link to view the release notes for the next version 
of VisIt: <a href="relnotes1.2.8.html">VisIt 1.2.8 Release Notes</a>.</p>

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